Sharp County record., 1887-06-23
people were very much agitated about it.

people were very much agitated about it
They said:
'Oh, you are going to bring too many
people into the church at once;" and they
sent down to New Brunswick to get John
Livingston to stop the revival.
Well, there was no better soul in all the
world than John Livingston. He went and
looked at the revival; th y wanted him to
stop it, He stood in the pulpit on the Sab
bath and looked over the solemn auditor y,
and he said:
This, brethren, is in reality the work OF
God beware how you try TO stop it,
And he was an old man, leaning heavily
on his staff-a very old man. And he
lifted that staff, and took hold Of the small
end of the staff, and began to let it fall
very slowly through. between the finger
and the thumb, and he said:
"Oh, thou mpenitent, thou art falling
now-falling away from life, falling away
from peace and heaven, falling as certain
" as that cane is falling through my hand
falling certainly, though perhaps falling
slowly"
And the cane kept on falling through
John Livingston's hand. The reli gious
emotion in the audience was overpower.
ing, and men saw type of their doom as
the cane kept falling and falling until the
knob of the cane struck Mr.. Livingstone 5
hand, and he clasped it stoutly and said:
''But the grace of God can stop you, as
| stopped that cane" and then there was
gladness all through the house at the
| fact of pardon and peace and salvation.
III ft4 al
vice: II guess you had better send Liv-
ngston home; he is making the revival
worse"
Oh, for the gales from heaven, and
Christ on board the shipl The danger OF
the Church of God is not in revivals.
Again, my subject impresses me with
the fact that Jesus was God and man in
the same being. Here he is in the bck
part of the boat. Oh, how tired he looks;
what sad dreams he must have! Look at
his countenance; he must be thinking of
the cross to come. Look at him; he is
man-bone of our bone osh Of our flesh.
Tired, he falls asleep; he is a man. But
then l find Christ at the Prov of the boat;
hear him say:
| Peace, be still
And see the storm kneeling at his feet,
and the tempests folding their wings in
his presence; he is God.
If | have sorrow and trouble, and want
| sympathy, l go and kneel down at the
| back part Of the boat, and say:
20, Christi weary one OF Gennesaret,
| sympathise with all my sorrows, man OF
Nazareth, man of the cross"
A man, man. But if l want to conquer
nv spiritual foes, if l want to get the vic
tory over SIN, death and hell, come to the
| front of the boat, and knael down, and
say: 30, Lord Jesus Christ, thou who
doest hush the tempest, hush all my grief,
hush all my temptations, hush all my
| SIM
A man, man; God, God.
Ilearn once more from this subject that
Christ can hush a tempest. Itdid seem as
if every thing must go to ruin. The dis
ciples had given up the idea of managing
the ship; the crew were entirely demor>
allied; yet Christ rises and he puts his
foot on the storm Oh, yes Christ can
hush the tempests.
You have had trouble. Perhaps it was
the little child taken away from you-the
sweetest child Of the household, the one
| who asked the most curious questions,
and stood around you with the greatest
fondness, and the spade cut down through
your bleeding heart. Perhaps it was an
only son, and your heart has ever since
| been like desolated castle, the owls OF
the night hooting among the fallen arches
and the crumbling stairways.
Perhaps it was an aged mother. You
| always went to her with your troubles.
| She was in your home to welcome your
| children into life, and when they died she
was there to pity you; that old hand will
do you no more kindness; that white lock
of hair you put away in the casket, or i'll
the locket, didn't look as it usually did
when she brushed it away from her
wrinkled brow in the home circle or in
tho country church. o. your property
gone. You said:
| ~ have so much bank stock, I have so
many Government securities, have so
many houses, have SO many farms. All
gone, all gone"
| Why, sir, all the storms that ever tram
pied their thunders, all the shipwrecks
have not been worse than this to you.
| Yet YOU have not been completely ever.
thrown. Why's Christ hushed the tenn
pest. Your little one was taken away.
Christ says:
| ~ have that little one in my keeping. ]
can care for him as we'll as you can. bet
ter than you can, o, bereave mother"
flushing the tempest. When your prop
erty went away God said:
| "There are treasures in Heaven, in
banks that never break"
| Jesus hushng the tempest
| There is one storm into which we will
all have to run. The moment when we
| let 90 of this life, and try to take hold of
the next, we will want all the grace pos
sible. Yonder l see Christian soul-rocG-
ing on the surges of death; all the pow
ers Of darkness seem let out against that
soul-the twirling wave, the thunder ct
the sky, the shrek of the wind, all seem
to unite together; but that soul is not
troubled; there is no signing; there are
no tears; plenty of tears in the room at
the departure, but he weeps no tears ;calm,
satisfied, peaceful; all is well By the fl Ish
of the storm you see the harbor jlst
ahead, and you are making for that har-
bor All shall be we'll, Jesus hushing the
| tempest.
Into the harbor of heaven now we glide;
We're home at last home at last.
| Softly we drift on its bright, silv'ry tide;
We're home at last.
| GLORY to God all our dangers are oer,
We stand secure on the glorifed shore;
Glory to Godl we will shout evermore,
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